A Thousand Mornings

A Thousand Mornings
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2012-10-11
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1101595973

The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from celebrated poet Mary Oliver In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her treasured dog Percy, Oliver is open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments and explores with startling clarity, humor, and kindness the mysteries of our daily experience.

Many Miles

Many Miles
Author: Mary Oliver
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-04
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0807068950

Presents forty-one of the author's favorite poems, including a variety of short poems, poems about her bichon Percy, and such classics as "Doesn't Every Poet Write a Poem about Unrequited Love?" and "The Dipper."

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Author: Terrance Hayes
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2018-06-19
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0525504966

Finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018 A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." -The New York Times In seventy poems bearing the same title, Terrance Hayes explores the meanings of American, of assassin, and of love in the sonnet form. Written during the first two hundred days of the Trump presidency, these poems are haunted by the country's past and future eras and errors, its dreams and nightmares. Inventive, compassionate, hilarious, melancholy, and bewildered--the wonders of this new collection are irreducible and stunning.

Committed to Memory

Committed to Memory
Author: John Hollander
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: American poetry
ISBN: 9781573226462

A collection of a hundred-and-some poems chosen specifically for memorization and for the particulary intense kind of silent reading with which a reader prepares to remember them.